VIV SERVICE · DEDICATED WORKSPACE

Which claims would still hold if the founder were not in the room?

Test what is claimed before capital is committed.

VERIFY · FULL SERVICE WORKSPACE

Independent Diligence & References

Replace deal narrative with independently checked evidence before a decision is made.

Why this matters

Private-company information is uneven and often promoter-led. The family needs to know which claims are verified, contradicted, incomplete or still unknown.

What VIV does

Define the decision and material claims that could change it
Verify corporate, financial, customer and operating evidence
Run permissioned founder, customer, supplier, former-employee or operator references
Separate facts, claims, judgment and unknowns
Produce red flags, open questions and a decision-ready evidence pack

Output

A decision-ready evidence pack with verified facts, unresolved unknowns, recommended action, owner and next decision date. Where relevant, the output routes into another VIV workspace rather than ending as a report.

Boundary

Private, contextual and permissioned. No mass distribution, guaranteed financing or transaction, and no substitute for regulated legal, tax, valuation or investment advice where required.

HOW · FLOW · STEPS

How the work moves.

01Decision & materiality map

02Evidence request

03Primary verification

04Off-list / permissioned references

05Contradiction analysis

06Decision pack

IMPACT · OUTCOME MEASUREMENT

Measure evidence and outcomes.

MEASURE 01% material claims verified

MEASURE 02# independent references

MEASURE 03contradictions surfaced

MEASURE 04critical unknowns remaining

MEASURE 05diligence turnaround

MEASURE 06decision changed / conditioned

INTERACTIVE SERVICE AUDIT

Run a first-pass Independent Diligence & References audit.

Give VIV enough context to identify evidence gaps, decision risk, the measurement baseline and the next workstream.

SERVICE FLOW

Problem → evidence → decision → action.

Verify evidence

Run references

Find contradictions

Separate fact / claim / judgment

INTERACTIVE AI-READY ENGINE

Structure the case before deeper work.

This prototype creates a structured first-pass workplan locally in the browser. It does not falsely claim a live external AI connection. Production can connect the same schema to an approved secure LLM/API.

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Independent Diligence & References: from problem to decision.

Find the few facts capable of changing the decision and verify them independently.

STEP 01

Map decision-critical claims

STEP 02

Design evidence and reference plan

STEP 03

Triangulate management claims with primary and independent evidence

STEP 04

Label fact / claim / inference / contradiction / unknown

STEP 05

Convert unresolved issues into conditions, deeper work or stop

What the client receives

Evidence-backed decision record
Explicit unknowns and dependencies
Named actions, owners and decision gates
Service-specific output rather than a generic report

How success is measured

critical claims verified
contradictions surfaced
open issues resolved
references completed
decision changes

Interactive audit engine

The engine asks only the facts needed for this service, identifies missing evidence, gives a first-pass diagnostic and routes the user into the relevant VIV workflow. It is not a generic lead form.

Why this service gets stronger with every completed mandate.

Reference graph

Reference sources are mapped by relationship, recency, independence and evidentiary value, making it easier to reach the right customers, former employees, suppliers, investors and industry participants for the next decision.

Contradiction-pattern library

Differences between management claims, documents, customer references and operating evidence are categorized so recurring warning patterns can be tested earlier in subsequent diligence.

Decision-linked diligence scope

The diligence scope is tied to the actual decision and downside case, preventing generic checklists from consuming time on facts that would not change an invest, hold, follow-on or exit decision.

Two situations where Independent Diligence & References becomes useful.

USE CASE 01

Founder-led diligence

A deal has strong narrative momentum but limited independent evidence. VIV identifies the claims most capable of changing the decision and verifies them through documents and permissioned references.

USE CASE 02

Conflicting signals

Financial data, customer commentary and management claims do not fully agree. VIV creates a contradiction map and distinguishes verified fact, claim, inference and unknown.

CASE STUDY · ANONYMIZED

When the investment story and external evidence diverged

A family was evaluating a private-company opportunity where management materials were persuasive but several operating claims remained difficult to reconcile. VIV narrowed the diligence around the claims that could change the investment decision, triangulated available evidence and conducted relevant references. The final pack did not attempt to remove uncertainty; it showed exactly which claims were verified, which remained open and which required conditions before capital could move.

Client-identifying details and commercially sensitive information are withheld for confidentiality.